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by crux_ 13y ago
Are you a dunce, or just too cowardly to stand behind your own words? Introduction of a group opposed to MRA: "the vocal, hateful group of internet 'feminists' constantly claim they are against sexism in all forms, and thus men's rights adv
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by crux_ 13y ago
Don't be disingenuous. Your comment introduced a group opposed to MRA's existence, then argued that they were wrong in doing so. As for the rest, I have no interest in labeling people into petty little tribal buckets. I don't care what you
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by crux_ 13y ago
The post I replied to was, in part, a (poorly worded) justification of the need for "men's rights advocates," and that is the part I chose to reply to. If you're angered by my disagreement, it's not because I'm being inflammatory. I have no
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by crux_ 13y ago
Just because you have no response to something doesn't make it trolling. The men's rights movement as it is should not exist. Not because male inequality is covered by feminist ideals, though it is, but because the "men's rights" movement i
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by crux_ 13y ago
Men's rights advocacy is, as a movement, pretty much the same thing as the whole "war on Christmas" crap that comes up on right wing TV every year. It has no legitimacy because it's not legitimate. Instead it is largely the same old prejudi
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by crux_ 13y ago
The comments here are absolutely disgusting. Sure, this service is shallow, and absolutely disrespectful of privacy, etc... But the amount of faux outrage you're all whipping yourselves into a froth over is really over the top. So much hate
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by crux_ 14y ago
.... looking for http://getcontinuum.com ? :)
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by crux_ 15y ago
A transcript would be nice! But I doubt there's one out there; it took a lot of trawling to find a mirror of the podcast in the first place, unfortunately.
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by crux_ 15y ago
So, it took a while to dig up a working link, but there's a memorable/revealing story I listened to a while ago about a visit to Brad Blanton's Radical Honesty workshop... worth a listen. mp3 link: http://fancyandawesome.com/cm/?tag=starle
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by crux_ 15y ago
Not trying to do anything more than make a side comment, but: > If she could also make the perfect waffle, that would be desirable, too. is the sort of casual sexism that I'd love to see less of.
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by crux_ 15y ago
Further... that's what the article was suggesting, too, although without the totalitarian overtones: "We start by accepting that food and shelter are basic human rights."
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by crux_ 15y ago
I disagree. Your belief that "new jobs take their place" will only remains true so long as increases in demand can keep pace with productivity: Sure, there's more demand out there in the developing world, but demand is finite in a way that
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by crux_ 15y ago
> Why now? Because increases in consumption are no longer able to keep pace with increased productivity?
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by crux_ 15y ago
> low-level annoyances ... like abusive former partners, death threats, being involuntarily outed, etc etc etc. Calling these things "low-level annoyances" betrays a deep self-absorption.
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by crux_ 15y ago
Yes indeed; if you want cultural diversity, head on out to the ghettos!
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by crux_ 15y ago
I read the article. Directly before the excerpt you quoted, as related by the same individual, you have the following quotes: a) "Most of the kids had left", b) "obviously at that point the people who had attacked you guys had run off" So h
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by crux_ 15y ago
> Same thing in today's USA. The mob of teens who broke Emily Guendelsberger's leg could not be arrested because the policemen were afraid of charges of racism. I don't get it: Arresting/picking up black teenagers in a large city simply
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by crux_ 15y ago
An interesting combo, even just as a thought experiment: bitcoin + mental poker. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker ) Wonder if there's a way to distribute a pot that doesn't require trusting a central server?
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by crux_ 15y ago
As a very random anecdote, I attended NYU myself ages ago and while I was not a business student, I did take classes at Stern. Unless things have changed, the amount of cheating in Stern is astronomical compared to courses from the other sc
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by crux_ 15y ago
IIRC, if you're really interested in that, you can munge up a bridge w/ Asterisk. Not sure if anyone's SAASing it anymore, though.
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by crux_ 15y ago
I'm not sure you understand me. To illustrate with an extreme: If we happened to be hard-wired by evolution to be tremendously predisposed towards genocidal behavior, would that make any acts of genocide we commit morally acceptable behavio
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by crux_ 15y ago
> we are also largely effected by our cognitive and biological biases I agree completely that these biases exist. However, to use a programming term, our biases are implementation concerns . Injustice doesn't somehow become otherwise
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by crux_ 15y ago
Of course -- however, the default used to be "On the internet, nobody know's you're a dog." There were very few sites, especially online communities, that would require your real name; of those that did, very few of them would require it
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by crux_ 15y ago
Your basic underlying thesis here is that we are all hard-wired lemmings, slaves to our biology, with limited capacity to adjust our behavior on the basis of reasoned morality. I reject that thesis. We are not animals. Our evolutionary hist
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by crux_ 15y ago
While I think privacy and gender issues are incredibly important symptoms, there's a deeper debate being had here: Will the internet of the future be a place where your persona can generally be isolated from your person? Historically, onlin
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by crux_ 15y ago
> Yes some people do that, but VERY few. How many TV shows present that reality? Movies? How many advertisements? Popular music? Dare I mention video games? "Relentless" is a very accurate way to summarize the situation. If you're inter
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by crux_ 15y ago
Why equate unemployment with boredom?
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by crux_ 15y ago
Generally: Unless our demand for goods and services can grow at a pace that matches worker productivity as amplified by automation, there eventually simply won't be enough work to be done to keep everyone fed & housed. This is paradoxic
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by crux_ 15y ago
I was being a bit tongue-in-cheek with the "1950" comment, is all -- making fun of one camp's deep backlash against post-modernism (among many other things).
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by crux_ 15y ago
For an example of the Culture Wars, just scroll back on the front page to the "Dangerous Mr. Khan" article. As far as the Sokal affair goes, it may or may not have done an excellent job of discrediting people, processes, institutions, writi

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